Delete a div or span with a id=“.xxx”

Question

I am unable to delete a div with an id with a period or an asterix.

Answer 1

ID and NAME tokens must begin with a letter ([A-Za-z]) and may be followed by any number of letters, digits ([0-9]), hyphens ("-"), underscores ("_"), colons (":"), and periods (".").

Answer 2

There’s a tool for that: http://mothereffingcssescapes.com/#*xxx.

HTML:

<p id="*xxx.">foo bar</p>

CSS:

<style>
  #\*xxx\. {
    background: hotpink;
  }
</style>

JavaScript:

<script>
  // document.getElementById or similar
  document.getElementById('*xxx.');
  // document.querySelector, jQuery or similar
  $('#\\*xxx\\.');
</script>